The German football federation has opened legal proceedings against Franz Beckenbauer, former members, and FIFA in a bid to limit potential damages arising from the 2006 World Cup corruption affair.
The DFB told The Associated Press in a statement that it has "taken the necessary measures to prevent a possible limitation of claims" against former head of the German World Cup organising committee Beckenbauer and his then vice-president Fedor Radmann, former DFB presidents Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach, former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt, the executors of Robert Louis-Dreyfus' estate, together with FIFA.
Central to the affair is a suspect €6.